Google Summer of Code 2014

GSoC 2014

The Open Bioinformatics Foundation has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2014, with 6 student projects funded!

2014 Student Projects

Evan Parker

Mentored by Wibowo Arindrarto and Peter Cock (BioPython)

• Blog: Biopython Addition of a Lazy Loading Sequence Parser to Biopython’s SeqIO Package
• Source code: https://github.com/eparker05/biopython/tree/lazy-load

Sarah Berkemer

Mentored by Christian Höner zu Siederdissen and Ketil Malde (BioHaskell)

• Blog: High-performance Transalign algorithm in Haskell

Leandro Watanabe

Dynamic Modeling of Cellular Populations via arrays in JSBML

mentored by Nicolas Rodriguez and Chris Myers (JSBML)

Loris Cro

Mentored by Francesco Strozzi and Raoul Bonnal (BioRuby)

• Blog: An ultra-fast scalable RESTful API to query large numbers of VCF datapoints
• Source code: https://github.com/kappaloris/GSoC-2014-OBF

Victor Kofia

Redesign the implementation of mathematical formulas in JSBML

mentored by Alex Thomas and Sarah Keating (JSBML)

Ibrahim Vazirabad

Improving the Plug-in interface for CellDesigner

mentored by Andreas Dräger (JSBML)